Prue Blake

'I've got excellent project management skills' I say in an interview, knowing full well I have an empty fridge, i'm on my last roll of toilet paper and i've been wearing the same shirt for three days.

Looking at a sentence you started with 'I'll always remember' and not for the life of you remembering what it was going to be about.

The hardest part of doing stand up comedy is having to post bills in areas that explicitly don't want them that have your full name and face on them.

West End Girl might be the most scorpio album to ever be released?

TV is back and my birthday is tomorrow so this newsletter is shorter than usual. The Lowest Most Awful for Week 43, 2025.

A very relaxed newsletter for reasons that i've made fairly obvious. 

Sometimes you spend a productive evening following all these mad rabbit holes of knowledge across the internet. Filling yourself with new knowledge and ideas and inspiration and then you get to the end of the night and realise all you've done is open a lot of new tabs you'll never look at again.

The last few months I've had some time off to focus on finishing the first draft of a novel and even though I'm closer to getting it finished than ever before (after two false starts) the struggle of getting these last few chapters finished is something new entirely.

Keep dinner local and other tips for how to spend a week in Copenhagen The lowest most awful for week 42, 2025.

I'll never apologise for loving Copenhagen and before you cry 'but isn't it so expensive' i'd like to gift you with the things I loved most from this visit. 

What I say: 'Yeah I think I have pretty traditional values' 
What I mean: 'I'm reading physical books on the toilet again'

Nobody warns you that a lot of marriage is arguing over what colour a lot of the things in your house are.

I've given up all my subscriptions and now my only entertainment diet is books I find for free in little street libraries. My world has never been richer.

When i'm at work the newsletters in my inbox feel like a break but when I am on holiday, boy oh boy do they feel like work.

The hardest people to work with are the ones that still double space after a full stop.

Eat an ice cream in the rain in Denmark and you'll never be smiled at more by strangers in your life.

Nothing quite like leaving the house, putting in your wired headphones and passing off yelling into the abyss for a good couple of hours as an important phone call.

The amount of ads you get for IMAX while being in an IMAX cinema is really something to behold. Like give it a rest, i've already paid for it.

The algorithm is a stalker when I need it to be a peeping tom. The Lowest Most Awful for Week 39

The plague of being followed online by a comedian you can’t stand and other things to spend your time and money on.

The trick to dating men is to fall asleep during their movies.

Looking forward to yet another Halloween where the costumes force me to admit that I do not have my finger on the pulse of what's resonated in pop culture. Like, what do you mean we are all going as Charli XCX's new husband or a boneless couch.

I would say the thing I'm most excited about in 2025 is the return of the lava lamp. Going to look so sick in my doomsday bunker.

The bigger the headphones, the closer to a public breakdown.

Making a concerned effort to document all my thoughts now while I still have the ability to independently have them.

Someone on my train is reading a book about unexplained alien phenomena and diligently filling in a ledger with 100's of dates and god I hope those dates are everything unexplained in his life.

When the research is better than the trip. The Lowest Most Awful for Week 39, 2025.

Are you making or ruining your holiday by doing too much research and other thoughts mostly about rom coms...

My social media is a cry for help but my real in person life, baby that's the highlight reel.

Living a car-free life because I'm done messing with things I don't understand.

Deep in my heart of hearts I believe I could do any job that's been featured with the Sims 4 careers list (inc. expansion packs).

Anyone else ever got addicted to the ad for an iphone game. I will not download the game but boy do I love playing that ad.

I don't want to sound like i've aged out of social media but it is messing with my head that we are filming in portrait and taking pictures in landscape now.

It's actually been great for my creativity that all my joke ideas are interspersed with random shopping lists in my notes app. Like what joke did I want to make about eggs, bread and ham?